seeing red

So I’ve always wanted to paint my bedroom red since well.. since like 6 or 7 years ago.. I chickened out and was convinced to go to a lighter “salmon” color in our last apartment which ended up looking like pink. yuck. So now since it’s our own house I did the photoshop work and the room is big enough to handle a dark color like red, so I dove in and bought the paint and voila the room is red. If only it was that easy

One coat of dark pink primer = 2 gallons of dark pink
4 coats of red = 5 gallons of red paint

Yes, FOUR coats of red!! Most would think painting white over a dark color like red or navy blue would take 4-5 coats. WRONG, it’s actually the contrary. Even touching up where the red bled over the white took one dab of white paint. Apparantly the explanation is that there’s less titanium oxide in darker paints (titanium oxide makes the paint stick to the wall) so it rolls on in a thin almost sheer coat every time.

Needless to say the red isn’t perfectly even looking, but it definitely frames the windows sooo nicely and the room can definitely handle the shrinkage a dark color does to a room. It looks fabulous with all my birthday furniture from Josh

Photos to come soon…